3.0.0 3328 2022-02-09T00:29:01Z 2022-02-09T00:29:01Z Senate S 2020-02-25 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-02-25T16:08:45Z BEST Act 116 3119 HR 2019-06-05 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2020-02-25 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2020-02-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI N R000608 Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] Jacklyn Rosen D NV 2020-07-22 False Education Academic performance and assessments Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Foreign language and bilingual programs Indian social and development programs Minority education Education 00 2020-02-25 Introduced in Senate 2020-08-03T16:17:20Z Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching Act or the BEST Act

This bill directs the Department of Education to award renewable two-year grants to states to establish or improve, and carry out, Seal of Biliteracy programs to recognize student proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and a second language.

Such programs must allow speakers of any official Native American language to use equivalent proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in such language in lieu of proficiency in English.

]]> BEST Act Display Title BEST Act Short Title(s) as Introduced BEST Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to award grants to States to establish or improve, and carry out, Seal of Biliteracy programs to recognize high-level student proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and a second language. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3328is/xml/BILLS-116s3328is.xml 2020-02-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.